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Sam Bent
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Agorist. Counter-economist. Privacy maximalist. Student of OPSEC. Anti-authoritarian. Free speech absolutist. Logician. Ex-Darknet Vendor. Youtuber.
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SamBent 14 hours ago
#OPSEC365 198/365 Digital receipts map your purchase history more precisely than paper ever could. Email receipts are searchable, timestamped, and never lost in a drawer. That complete purchase history going back years reveals your financial situation, preferences, and lifestyle in fine detail to anyone who accesses your email. Your inbox is a complete purchase history. Anyone with access to your email has access to everything you've bought. #OPSEC365
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SamBent yesterday
#OPSEC365 197/365 Public records don't expire and they don't forget. Every property you've owned is in the county assessor's database with your name and address. Business registrations list you as agent. A dismissed court case is still indexed on PACER and CourtListener. A lien from 2011 is still there. Aggregator copies survive even after an official record is sealed. #OPSEC365
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SamBent 2 days ago
#OPSEC365 196/365 Health insurance claims reveal your medical history to multiple parties. Every claim goes to the insurer, gets reported to industry databases like MIB, and may be shared with employers for self-insured plans. Procedures, diagnoses, and medications become part of your permanent health record beyond your doctor's office. The MIB shares claim history across insurers. One claim can affect your rates with carriers you've never used. #OPSEC365
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SamBent 3 days ago
#OPSEC365 195/365 Password managers often include emergency access features. Bitwarden, 1Password, and LastPass let you designate emergency contacts who can request access to your vault after a waiting period. If you've enabled this, someone else can potentially reach all your credentials. If you turned it on and forgot, a designated contact may be one request and one waiting period away from everything. #OPSEC365
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SamBent 4 days ago
#OPSEC365 194/365 Smart doorbells record conversations from people walking past. Ring and Nest cameras with audio capture snippets of conversation from neighbors, delivery workers, and passersby. That private conversation you had on the sidewalk might be recorded in someone else's cloud storage without your knowledge or consent. A Ring camera covers the street, the neighbor's driveway, and anyone who walks past, not just the front door. #OPSEC365
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SamBent 5 days ago
This has existed for over 10 years. None of this is about protection or any cause that has to do with protecting you. Notice how both still exist? It was never about either of those things, just like ID confiscation (aka 'age verification) isn't about age. There is a reason signaltrace, axon and flock appeared as they did. image
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SamBent 5 days ago
#OPSEC365 193/365 Cross-cut shredding is not enough for high-sensitivity documents. After the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, Iranian student militants painstakingly reassembled strip-shredded classified documents by hand and published them in dozens of volumes. Modern reconstruction software does the same job for cross-cut shreds in minutes. For anything that matters, burn it or use a micro-cut shredder rated P-5 or higher. #OPSEC365
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SamBent 6 days ago
#OPSEC365 192/365 Video call recordings capture everything in frame and earshot. Zoom and Teams meetings get recorded, often by default in corporate settings. Your facial expressions, background, voice, and any visible documents are preserved. Meetings you thought were ephemeral may sit in cloud storage accessible to IT and management. Side conversations and visible documents end up in storage you don't control. #OPSEC365
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